Purpose Physician retirement has important impacts on medical learners as well as retiring
physicians themselves. Retiring physicians take with them a wealth of knowledge, wisdom …

Background: The academic clinician-educator (CE) often has a career spanning 40 or more
years. Retirement represents the last stage of one's professional identity. Planning for …

There is growing recognition of the need to reeducate clinically inactive physicians seeking
to return to practice and in the facilitation of this return. Physicians seeking to return to …

For individuals with strong work identities, the decision to retire can be particularly
challenging. For academic physicians, retirement is an important personal decision that also …

Objective There is a growing concern about a shortage of physician scientists. This problem
is particularly severe in certain subspecialties such as geriatrics in general and geriatric …

Problem Medical school faculty are aging, but few academic health centers are adequately
prepared with policies, programs, and resources (PPR) to assist late-career faculty. The …

Although many professional and accrediting bodies have identified competencies for
medical students pertaining to caring for older patients, including understanding the basics …

Background: More geriatricians are needed to care for the aging population. Geriatric
scholarly concentration programs (GSCPs) may promote medical students' interest in this …

The entire healthcare workforce needs to be educated to better care for older adults. The
purpose of this study was to determine whether fellows are being trained to teach, to assess …

Abstract Issue: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's Next
Accreditation System has forever changed the way faculty evaluate residents, fellows, and …